Science Project 3

At first Scott had been happy with their arrangement. After all Bridget was a hardworking student, and Scott had gone to college mostly for th

At first, Scott had been happy with their arrangement. After all, Bridget was a hardworking student, and Scott had gone to college mostly for the parties and the girls (though he was finding less and less time for either with the current eating regimen he had been placed on). This health class had been a necessary elective, and with Bridget as his partner, he could coast through the end of the year. He simply had to follow her rigid instructions: absolutely no physical exercise, consume everything she instructed him to eat (more was acceptable, but less wasn’t an option), and meet with her once a day to check vitals and any noticeable changes. It seemed like an easy A. And he figured he’d always have the chance to work off a bit of blubber once the year-long project was complete.

Today was the first progress check on the class’s projects, and now, for the first time, standing in his underwear in front of his classmates, he was beginning to have second thoughts about how sweet this deal really was. Bridget asked Scott to strip and proceeded to begin her presentation, first by admitting that Scott’s growth had already well surpassed even her wildest expectations. She attributed this to his great leaning toward unhealthy, calorie-rich food and his complete lack of exercise. She went on to list all of her findings, presenting both to the class and to Scott statistical information that began to rouse him from his dream state. Maybe it was the snickering of his classmates, or maybe it was the thorough explanation of his new stretch marks being an indication of unprecedented, irreversible changes to his physique, but for the first time since starting his gain, Scott began to think that maybe this might have been a mistake.

“Three hundred fifty-six pounds!” she declared excitedly. The crowd of students gasped as Scott’s face dropped. “That means, from a starting weight of 175 pounds, we’ve already more than doubled his weight!” The crowd began snapping pictures as Scott’s face flushed red… This wasn’t what he had expected when he agreed to be Bridget’s partner.

She concluded her presentation by declaring that in the second half of the project, she would focus on even more extreme measures, with the goal being to shift Scott’s lifestyle as drastically as possible and report her findings. “With the already remarkable changes to Scott’s slowed metabolism and increased stomach capacity, a shift to a greater percentage of foods with high cholesterol and saturated fat content, plus a drastic increase in caloric intake, should see that Scott’s weight increases exponentially through the end of the project!”

Exponential? Scott thought in horror.

“See you next month for the next weigh-in,” she declared enthusiastically. The class applauded, and the professor gave Bridget a nod of approval for her hard work.